Primitive elvish

okh

root. *egg

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. ohtë “egg”
  • ᴺS. och “egg”
  • ᴺS. oetha- “to lay eggs, nest”

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Early Primitive Elvish

oho

root. *egg

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. ohte “egg” and ᴱQ. oi “bird, hen”; Tolkien speculated it was in fact the same root as ᴱ√OHO “cry” (QL/69). G. och “egg” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon is clearly related (GL/62), and probably also G. uil “hen” and G. uitha- “lay eggs, nest” given than they appear adjacent to uith “eggs”, the plural of och (GL/74). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining in Neo-Eldarin as ᴺ√OKH.

Derivatives

  • Eq. oi “bird, hen” ✧ QL/069
  • Eq. ohte “egg” ✧ QL/069
  • G. uil “hen”
  • G. och “egg”
  • G. uitha- “to lay eggs, nest”
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/069] Group: Eldamo. Published by